Making a Spiral

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Andrew
Jan 31, 2005
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Can anyone tell me how to make a nice looking
Spiral in Photoshop?

I just need to go around about 3 times.

Drawing it by hand doesn’t look so hot.

Thanks,

Andrew
Photoshop 6.0

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Corey
Feb 1, 2005
There should be one in your Custom Shapes tool. On mine, it’s in the custom shape file called "All." I think is came with Photoshop, but then I’ve downloaded hundreds of custom shapes from the Adobe Exchange (http://share.studio.adobe.com/)

Peadge 🙂

"Andrew" wrote in message
Can anyone tell me how to make a nice looking
Spiral in Photoshop?

I just need to go around about 3 times.

Drawing it by hand doesn’t look so hot.

Thanks,

Andrew
Photoshop 6.0
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edjh
Feb 1, 2005
Andrew wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to make a nice looking
Spiral in Photoshop?

I just need to go around about 3 times.

Drawing it by hand doesn’t look so hot.

Thanks,

Andrew
Photoshop 6.0
There is a spiral shape in the Custom Shapes. Or, it could be done by making a line and applying Filter>Distort>Twirl and erasing half of the spiral,but I would use the Spiral Tool in Freehand. Illustrator may have something similar.


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Andrew
Feb 1, 2005
Peadge wrote:
There should be one in your Custom Shapes tool. On mine, it’s in the custom shape file called "All." I think is came with Photoshop, but then I’ve downloaded hundreds of custom shapes from the Adobe Exchange (http://share.studio.adobe.com/)

Nope. Ain’t got that shape. 🙁

There was a nice pair of "feet", however. 🙂

If you’re feeling generous, maybe you could email it to me.

panospace at hotmail.com

Thanks,

Andrew
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edjh
Feb 1, 2005
Andrew wrote:
Peadge wrote:

There should be one in your Custom Shapes tool. On mine, it’s in the custom
shape file called "All." I think is came with Photoshop, but then I’ve downloaded hundreds of custom shapes from the Adobe Exchange (http://share.studio.adobe.com/)

Nope. Ain’t got that shape. 🙁

There was a nice pair of "feet", however. 🙂

If you’re feeling generous, maybe you could email it to me.
panospace at hotmail.com

Thanks,

Andrew

What version of Photoshop? Do you have all the Shapes loaded?


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Andrew
Feb 1, 2005
edjh wrote:

What version of Photoshop? Do you have all the Shapes loaded?

Photoshop 6.0

I loaded a file called "Custom Shapes.csh", which was the only ..csh file I could find. It was in the Custom Shapes folder.

Andrew
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edjh
Feb 2, 2005
Andrew wrote:
edjh wrote:

What version of Photoshop? Do you have all the Shapes loaded?

Photoshop 6.0

I loaded a file called "Custom Shapes.csh", which was the only .csh file I could find. It was in the Custom Shapes folder.
Andrew
Unfortunately, Custom Shapes in 7 and 8 are not backward compatible to 6.


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John Forest
Feb 3, 2005
Try this:
First open a new file at about the desired size and with the pencil tool draw a line from the center of the canvas to the edge, holding down the shift key to keep it straight. Then go to Filter>Distort>Twirl and run the slider all the way to one or the other side. Apply this and it will give you a nice spiral. When I did this I got a line that was dotted, so I selected the line and stroked it , which turned it to a solid line. My original line was 10 pixels wide and the stroke was 15 pixels. When selecting the line I used the magic wand and then Select>Similar to get the whole line. My original new file was about 6 X 6 inches. Once you have the spiral you can copy it and paste it as a layer and resize it at will.
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replytogroup
Feb 9, 2005
"John Forest" wrote in message
Try this:
First open a new file at about the desired size and with the
pencil tool
draw a line from the center of the canvas to the edge, holding down
the
shift key to keep it straight. Then go to Filter>Distort>Twirl and
run the
slider all the way to one or the other side. Apply this and it will
give
you a nice spiral. When I did this I got a line that was dotted, so I selected the line and stroked it , which turned it to a solid line.
My
original line was 10 pixels wide and the stroke was 15 pixels. When selecting the line I used the magic wand and then Select>Similar to
get the
whole line. My original new file was about 6 X 6 inches. Once you
have the
spiral you can copy it and paste it as a layer and resize it at will.
Interesting. I tried what you said except I set the brush size to 9 pixels and then used the pencil tool. The resulting spiral was not dotted. Cool trick.

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